Overview
- Provides a critical view of the recent irrigation policies and practices in 8 selected Mediterranean countries
- Analyses the current processes of technological and institutional change on irrigation in the Mediterranean
- Identifies the main challenges of Mediterranean irrigation for the next decades
Part of the book series: Global Issues in Water Policy (GLOB, volume 22)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
Keywords
- Basin Closure
- Basin Overbuilding
- Collective Action
- Desalination
- Drainage
- Drip Irrigation
- Groundwater Depletion
- Groundwater Governance
- Hydraulic Bureaucracies
- Hydraulic Mission
- Irrigation Institutions
- Irrigation Policy
- Irrigation Technologies
- Water Users’ Associations
- Water-Saving Technologies
- Wastewater Reuse
- water policy
About this book
This book focuses on eight selected countries (Tunisia, Morocco, Spain, France, Italy, Turkey, Israel and Egypt) and provides a comparative perspective that both thoroughly explores their specificities and identifies the common challenges faced by the irrigation sector in these countries. The book has been written at a critical moment, when the continued application of a supply-side water management model is revealing its unsustainable nature in numerous places; when significant technological changes are taking place in the irrigation sector; when new forms of management and governance are widely held as badly needed; and finally, when climate change is compounding many of the difficulties that have characterized irrigation policies and practices in the past decades.
This complicated future context makes Mediterranean irrigation face various political dilemmas on water management, raising social tensions, triggering territorial and land conflicts, and stimulating new technological developments. This book provides a timely analysis of the particular trajectory of eight Mediterranean countries in these uncertain transformations,and attempts to identify the best strategies to avert or overcome future risks.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Carles Sanchis-Ibor is a geographer working as researcher at the Centro Valenciano de Estudios del Riego of the Universitat Politècnica de València since 2000, and lecturer at the Faculty of Geography and History of the Universitat de València since 2001. His work has been focused on irrigation institutions, water policy and environmental management. He is author of 102 publications including 64 book chapters and articles in peer-viewed journals, and 4 books. He is also editor of 2 books, has tutorized 2 PhD Thesis. He has participated in 11 research projects and 36 consultancy contracts with public administrations and private entities. He is member of the board of trustees of the Assut Foundation for the protection and defense of traditional irrigation and wetlands of the Mediterranean.
Llorenç Avellá-Reus is agricultural engineer and full professor of Agricultural and Environmental Economics at the Universitat Politècnica de València and member of the Centro Valenciano de Estudios del Riego. His work has been focused on immigration and labour market in agriculture, land use change and water economics and water policy. He has participated in 49 research projects and has been a consultant to several public and private entities. He is the author of about 40 articles and 15 books and he has tutorized 9 PhD theses
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Irrigation in the Mediterranean
Book Subtitle: Technologies, Institutions and Policies
Editors: François Molle, Carles Sanchis-Ibor, Llorenç Avellà-Reus
Series Title: Global Issues in Water Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03698-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-03696-6Published: 24 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-03698-0Published: 09 May 2019
Series ISSN: 2211-0631
Series E-ISSN: 2211-0658
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 320
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 35 illustrations in colour
Topics: Waste Management/Waste Technology, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, Agricultural Economics, Marketing, Agriculture